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Richard Overy recasts the way in which we view the WWII and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. A masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War.